Student Survey of Technology - Classroom, Online, and Other April 2016

Institutional Effectiveness Definition

Institutional Effectiveness is the commitment an organization undertakes to continuously and critically examine its processes and how well it achieves its mission. At the University of Mexico (UNM), our goal is to engage in a cyclic process of continuous improvement: we determine what outcomes we want; we perform; we evaluate our performance; we identify strengths and weaknesses in our performance; we celebrate our successes; we examine our weaknesses for opportunities to improve; we implement those improvements; and then we begin again. To accurately optimize our performance, we collect and analyze data annually to inform as well as drive our decisions, improvements, and program reviews. Each academic and administrative unit at the University is expected to demonstrate its commitment to UNM’s students and their academic success through its documented participation in a cyclic process of continuous improvement. This process aids UNM in ensuring that the mission and purpose of the University are being achieved.

Information: Two Sessions: Training session to provide guidance and support for Program Assessment Coordinators and Course Level – General Education Assessment faculty with Assessment Reporting. This is a hands-On training to help with collection of data and using the UNM Gallup Assessment templates. Please feel free to email the CARC for any questions at GAassess@unm.edu. Thank you.

UNMA Program Assessment Deadline: Institutional deadline for submitting the initial draft of the program assessment report is October 1st and the final draft of the program assessment report is due in December 23rd.

UNMG Program Assessment Deadline: Program Assessments will be DUE September 11, 2015. The UNMG internal deadlines will be adjusted to ensure reviewing, providing feedback and collecting of final drafts on the program reports occur before submitting in accordance with the two UNMA institutional deadlines.

UNMA and UNMG General Education/Core Program: The institutional deadline is February 1st. Keep in mind that the assessment cycle for the Core has shifted from the calendar year to the academic year. The NM HED deadline for institutional Core assessment reports are due in October.

UNMG NMHED REPORT: GEAS representative for Gallup needs to begin collecting or have access to all of the 2014-2015 Core course level assessment reports by February 1st in order to start summarizing them and including them as appendices for the institutional Core comprehensive assessment report. UNMG Branch will determine which Core courses and Core areas to collect course level assessment reports. As we proceed in standardizing the SLOs for the Core, the GEAS will work this fall and spring on developing an intuitional assessment plan for the Core that spans all campuses. This plan will outline which Core courses and/or Core areas will be reported on each year across all five campuses over the next 3 years starting, summer 2016.

Program Assessment

Program-level assessment gives members of academic departments or programs the opportunity to ask: What and How is our program contributing to the learning and development of our students as a group? It's a systematic process for looking at student work or other evidence of student achievement across courses or and entire program.

This Academic Program Assessment Plan template is a guideline for creating assessment plans to assess academic program-level student learning outcomes. An assessment plan can span one, two, or three assessment cycles. Alternative formats (e.g., those used by specialized accreditors) may be acceptable; please check first with the Office of Assessment.*
Assessment plans should include clear differentiations between degrees (i.e., concentration, certificate).
UNM Generic Academic Programs Assessment Plan Template

Existing academic program assessment plans (including changes to SLO's) are required to submit and update the Academic Program Plan Template attached above for approval by UNMG CARC committee by sending email to GAassess@unm.edu.

The UNMG CARC committee is delighted to assist program coordinators in creating their Academic Program Assessment plans and can be great resource for other assessment needs and questions. Please send email to GAassess@unm.edu to address your assessment matters.

At the end of the academic year, you are required to complete and submit the UNM Generic Annual Program Assessment Report using the link template. Let CARC know if you would require us to add your plan to tk20 or if you will complete that task yourself.
UNM Generic Annual Program Assessment Report Template

UNMG CARC will review and notify the program coordinator and division chair with any recommendations or approval by email. The program coordinator will need to add/update tk20 with your results or request CARC to complete the task by emailing GAassess@unm.edu.

Course LevelAssessment - GeneralEducation Assessment (NMHED)

UNM Course-Level Assessment Plan/Report is at the UNM Course-Level. Since there are assessments of the UNM Core happening at the institutional level, it is important to distinguish between the assessment planning and reporting that is happening at the course and institutional levels.

The UNMG CARC committee is delighted to assist Faculty in creating/completing their UNM Course-Level plans/reports and can be great resource for other assessment needs and questions. Please send email to GAassess@unm.edu to address your assessment matters.